Originally Posted by Riv-Lantis

Another thing to consider is when the vast majority of people would charge their vehicles. Most would charge at night, during off-peak hours.

Since electric utilities can't easily "throttle" their power plants, they basically have to ramp them up to produce power for peak demand. So at night (when electricity demand is lowest), they're still running the plants nearly as hard as they did to meed the peak demand during the day.

Recharging an EV during the night time 0ff-peak hours really produces no more pollution emmissions than the plant would have spewed that night anyway. You're just storing the excess electricity the plant produced instead of it going to waste.

And at least an EV has the option of being charged with wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydroelectric, or nuclear power. An IC vehicle will alway be an IC vehicle.